Glare stop



sept. 4, 1923. r 1,467,002

F. W. LA MOREAUX GLARE STOP Filed Aprill 18. 1922 Patented Sept. 4, 1923.

Unita GLARE STOP.

Application led April 18, 1922.

1o all whom t may con-cern.'

Be it known that I, F RANK lV. LA HOREAUX, a citizen of the United States, residing at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Glare Stops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in glare-stops, designed for use by drivers of automobiles and other vehicles, and has for its object to provide a novel, simple and effective shield for preventing the head-lights from blinding the drivers of approaching vehicles. And a further object is to provide a glare-stop of the class which consists of a single member comprising a fiexible opaque shield, which may be secured to the visor of a cap, or to the brim of an ordinary hat, worn by drivers or passengers of automobiles and other vehicles, the said device being permanently equipped with means for attaching and detaching, and may be readily and quickly applied, removed and adjusted, without requiring any alteration or change of the headgear.

A particular object of the invention is to improve and simplify the glare-stops shown and described in my United States Patent No. 1,338,022, dated April 27, i920.

The various features and parts of the invention will be understood from the detailed description which follows, and by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l is a front face view of a cap, to which my improvement is applied; showing by full and dotted lines the operative as well as the idle positions of the glare-stop. Fig. 2 is a broken sectional view, taken on line 2-2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a similar section, taken on line 3-3 of Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a vertical section, taken on line L -1l of Fig. 1. And Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view showing one end of the device in plan view.

In the drawing, 2 represents a cap, including the usual baggy crown 2', the band 2a, and the visor 2b.

My improved glare-stop consists of asingle strip 3, preferably of opaque flexible material, such as Celluloid, of relatively thin gage, which readily bends and conforms to the curvature of the forward margin of the visor 2b and the band 2a of the cap 2, as shown in Fig. 1. The portion 3 of the device is preferably relatively broad, so that seran` No. 555,479.

when applied to the cap, the said portion projects a considerable distance below the line of vision of the wearers eyes, indicated at l-4 in F ig. 1, while the remaining portion 3a of the device is preferably reduced in, breadth, for clearing the wearers (left) ear. The glarestop is detachably secured to the visor 2b by means of a gripper 5, of well-known construction, having a yieldable jaw 5', as best seen in Fig. 2, the said gripper4 being pivotally mounted upon one end of a connecting member or link 6, whose opposite end, as well as the corresponding end of the part 3, are perforated to receive a broad headed pivoting rivet 7. The opposite end 3ft of the part 3 is fitted with a similar gripper 8, which grips the lower edge of the band 2a of the cap, as best seen in Fig. 3. The gripper 8 has a laterally eX- tending link member 9 which has its free end, as well as the portion 3a correspondingly perforated to receive a pivoting rivet 10. In the preferred arrangement of thev parts, the shield 3 is movable to a slight eX- tent in a rotary manner on the rivets 7 and 10, so as to permit the shield to be raised and lowered, as shown by the full and dotted lines in Figs. l and 4, without disturbing the grippers 6 and 8. This enables the wearer to shift the shield upwardly clear of the line of vision at will, because the shield being` flexible readily springs and tleXes suliiciently to change its form from the arc-shape shown by the full lines in Fig. l, to the relatively flat or straight form, shown by the full lines in Fig. 4. The link 6 forms more or less of a toggle formation with the gripper 5 so that when the device is shifted to its upper or inoperative position, the link will have swung above dead center, or the pivot 7 will have swung above the pivot 6 and will thus remain in that position. When the shield 3 is lowered to the full line position in Fig. 1 and to the dotted line position in Fig. 4, a stop-button or pin l2 located near the top margin of the body comes to rest upon the top forward margin of the visor, and prevents the accidental gravitation of the device beyond that shown in Figs. 1 and 4. My improved glare-stop is extremely simple, and can be produced very cheaply. Vhen the device is in the operative position, the left eye of the wearer is entirely covered, and when he is approaching a bright head-light, he depends entirely strip terminating substantially midway across the front of the cap.

2. A glare-stop attachment for hats, comprising an opaque body, a pair of grippers, onev gripper being pivotally connected to one end of the body, and a link pivotally v connected at one end to the other gripper, said link having its opposite end pivotally connected to the opposite end of the body in a toggle relation therewith.

In testimony whereof l alhx my signature.

FRANK W. LA MOREAUX.' 

